This Week in WordPress #163

“Get Robert on Speeddial”

This week’s WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 10th May 2021

With Nathan Wrigley, Paul Lacey (@wp_paullacey), Ronald Gijsel (@just2ronald), Topher DeRosia (@topher1kenobe), and Joe Casabona (@jcasabona).

You can find the Newsletter here which has all the links mentioned in this episode:
https://news.wpbuilds.com/issues/163/

We focus on the following stories:

• GiveWP Acquired by Liquid Web
  https://howibuilt.it/givewp/
  https://givewp.com/givewp-joins-liquidweb/
  
• Robert Jacobi joins Cloudways as Director of WordPress
  https://www.cloudways.com/blog/wordpress-evangelist-robert-jacobi-joined-cloudways/
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1Og5JurfD4&t=2906s
  
• Reflecting on the Page Builder Summit
  https://pagebuildersummit.com/
  
• WP Café #13: The future of WordPress with Matt Mullenweg and Josepha Haden Chomposy
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYAfgDsqDak 
  
• Accessibility Advocates Sign Open Letter Urging People Not To Use AccesiBe and Other Overlay Products
  https://wptavern.com/accessibility-advocates-sign-open-letter-urging-people-not-to-use-accesibe-and-other-overlay-products 
  
• GeneratePress Premium 2.0 Releases with first Block based Theme Builder
  https://generatepress.com/premium/ 
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM_GVt3TYrs  
  
• Gravity Forms: Introducing the New 2.5 Features: Accessibility
  https://www.gravityforms.com/introducing-the-new-2-5-features-accessibility/